00:00What you recognize as properly coined by former Prime Minister Stuart Young, it is smoke and mirrors.
00:10It is well seasoned with deceit, deception, and in some respects, dishonesty.
00:20Mr. Morris said 5% of the national budget is no gift to Tibigonians.
00:25In 2018, under the PNM, the THA received an overall allocation of over $2.5 billion.
00:39And they also received, in government transfers, an additional $1.09 billion.
00:48And percentage-wise, put together, that represented in 2018, 6.49%.
01:01Therefore, it is incorrect, it is dishonest, it is deceitful, and it is disingenuous for both the UNC and the TPP to be going around and saying that this 6.3% is but the highest.
01:22Morris said he is seeing job losses for CPEP and URP workers in Tobago as the program is scrapped in Trinidad.
01:31Curiously, as I mentioned, you will recall the AXO, $91.9 million for URP and $43.4 million for CPEP.
01:42Again, I have looked both on the recurrence side, the development side, funding to statutory bodies,
01:50and I have not seen any allocation specific to URP and to CPEP.
01:59Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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